How The College Admissions Process Works

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How The College Admissions Process Works

This week hundreds of colleges across the country will be notifying applicants whether they’ve been accepted, waitlisted, or rejected. Here’s how college admissions departments determine their incoming freshman class:

Step 1: Admissions officers immediately reject all applicants who have the same first name as anyone they don’t like

Step 2: Colleges dispatch officials to monitor students while they sleep to see if they actually dream of going to their school

Step 3: School calculates a raw ranking score for each applicant based on all the standardized tests they took, including the SAT, ACT, SAT II, PEMCAP, GANT, Intermediate Bovis Assessment, ATK, PDB, Advanced Bovis Assessment, and the BLIM

Step 12: Your parents, relatives, and friends spend the next five months convincing you that the school you got into is actually pretty good and it’s really more about what you put into the experience than anything

Step 13: Soup kitchens go back to being understaffed and patiently hold out until next year’s application cycle